Apti Aukhadov with the silver medal he won at the London 2012 Olympics, he has since been found to have used the steroid turinabol and been stripped of the medal by the IOC.
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The International Olympic Committee has disqualified two more athletes from London 2012 after they tested positive in the re-analysis of stored anti-doping samples.

Aukhadov, the 2013 European and world champion in the 85kg category, loses the silver medal he won in London, while Mazuryk, a former world junior champion and 2010 European silver medallist, finished 18th in 2012. The 23-year-old Aukhadov now faces a four-year ban and the loss of all of his results between 2012 and 2016.

An IOC statement to announce the two new positives said: “The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the International Olympic Committee. To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at Rio 2016, the IOC put special measures in place, including targeted pre-tests and the re-analysis of stored samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012, following an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015.”